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A poem bringing violence into perspective from video games to real life.

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Game Over
New York Times

There's a

Destructive imagination

We call them

Video games

We fantasize about wars

And killing people

Are

Developing ways

To make virtual

A reality

But in reality

There are people

Who

Live that in actuality

Daily

A dark game

That

Never ends

You can't

Unplug

Power off

If you

Die

You can't

Respawn

You don't get

Unlimited defenses

Bullets

Coming towards you

Don't deflect

Because they're

Not just a

Visual effect

You can't choose

"Easy mode"

The controller is

Glued to your hands

And you don't

Control the buttons

Background noise

Isn't

Obscene jokes

Through

The headset

It's

Crying, screaming

Agonizing

Tangible

Fear

It's

Death

And those hearts

To save up

Aren't blinking on the screen

To give you life

Where's your heart?

You sold it

To the screen

For three hundred

Pieces of paper

For a console

As your consolation

From reality

Where once you die

That's it

Game over.



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